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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Forever Man
Eoin Colfer · 339 pages
Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, who has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, and Chevie, the seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick, face the return of Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and must destroy him once and for all.
Sapphire Blue
Kerstin Gier
Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers.
A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time
Mary Pope Osborne · 135 pages
Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol."
Once Every Never
Lesley Livingston · 387 pages
Clarinet Reid is a typical teenager on the surface, except she has a centuries-old Druid blood curse running through her veins. She is locked in a deadly race to find a stolen artifact, avert an explosive catastrophe, save a Celtic warrior princess, and right a wrong that happened centuries before.
The Door That Led to Where
Sally Gardner · 276 pages
When the present offers no hope for the future, the answers may lie in the past. AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change - but he could never have imagined by how much. Tidying up the archive one day, AJ finds an old key, mysteriously labelled with h
Both Sides of Time
Caroline B. Cooney · 224 pages
The summer after senior year, Annie, wishing she could have lived a hundred years ago in a more romantic time, finds herself in the 1890s and it is indeed romantic--and very painful.
The Wolves of London
Mark Morris · 347 pages
"Psychology professor Alex Locke is an ex-convict, forced back into the criminal underworld when his daughter is threatened. After he agrees to steal a mysterious Obsidian Heart, Locke is pursued by unearthly assassins known as the 'Wolves of London'. Soon he discovers the heart can enable him to travel through time, and while it bestows him with his own dark powers, it also corrupts"--Amazon.com,
Dark Mirror
M.J. Putney · 304 pages
When a shocking accident forces Tory to demonstrate her despised skill, the secret she's fought so hard to hide is revealed for all to see. She is immediately exiled to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for young men and women in her position. There she will learn to suppress her deplorable talents and maybe, if she's one of the lucky ones, be able to return to society.
To Visit the Queen
Diane Duane · 369 pages
The cat heroes of The Book of Night with Moon are called out of our time and into the year 1874 to help prevent an assassination plot against Queen Victoria in this delightful sequel to the national fantasy bestseller. Rhiow, head of the feline team that saved New York City in the first book, returns along with her partners Urruah and Arhu, called upon to use their wizardly powers to avert disaste
The Seven Year King
Kiki Hamilton · 319 pages
"It is the seventh year--the time when the UnSeelie Court must pay a tithe to Seelie royalty to remain a separate entity. Sacrificed at midnight on Samhain, the UnSeelies call their offering the Seven Year King. This time, Donegal plans to sacrifice someone Tiki loves. To make matters worse, Fiona disappears, Johnny lies near death, and the threat of the liche comes closer. Tiki's only hope is tha
The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince
Cassandra Clare · 257 pages
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
Foulsham
Edward Carey · 325 pages
"At the Iremonger mansion, set in the trash heaps of an alternate Victorian London, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Will outcast grandson Clod--transformed into a gold coin--and servant girl Lucy (now a discarded button) be found and returned to human form?"--
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley · 384 pages
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible -- for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and mo
A Shadow Bright and Burning
Jessica Cluess · 416 pages
When her unusual powers mark her as the one destined to lead the war against the seven Ancients, Henrietta trains to become the first female sorcerer in centuries--though the true nature of her ability threatens to be revealed.
The Immortal Heights
Sherry Thomas · 440 pages
When Bane, the monstrous tyrant who bestrides the entire mage world, demands that Titus hand over Iolanthe or watch as his entire realm is destroyed in a deadly rampage, Iolanthe and Titus decide to infiltrate Bane's crypt, the most ferociously guarded fortress in Atlantis.
Betrothed
Morgan Rice
London in 1599 is a wild place, filled with paradoxes: while on the one hand it is an incredibly enlightened, sophisticated time, breeding playwrights like Shakespeare, on the other, it is also barbaric and cruel, with daily public executions, torture, and heads of prisoners impaled on spikes. It is also a time of superstition and grave public danger, with a lack of sanitation, and the Bubonic Pla
Timebound
Rysa Walker · 374 pages
When Kate Pierce-Keller's grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate's present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killin
Always a Witch
Carolyn MacCullough · 276 pages
This book is about a witch named Tasmin who in the book previous had found out that she indeed had a talent ( magical powers) and is one of the most powerful witches. Now she is faced with her grandmothers predictions, which could lead to the end of the world as she knows it. But on top of that she still needs to Master her talents! Read Once a Witch First!